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Many of the Syrian government’s most powerful weapons are looking less potent and in some cases like a liability for the military of President Bashar al-Assad.
By rushing to get a software trading program online, Knight Capital lost millions of dollars and created havoc on stock exchanges this week.
Thomas M. Joyce, chief executive of the Knight Capital Group, has been an unapologetic advocate of electronic trading. After Wednesday’s trading debacle at Knight, he is fighting for the firm’s survival.
Seventeen years after Baithe Diop’s slaying, a federal investigator linked the killing to a confession by two gang members.
“Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth” has the former heavyweight boxing champion telling stories of his life in this one-man show at the Longacre Theater.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 1, 2012, covering August 3, 2012.
Nas
Zac Brown Band
Kidz Bop Kids
Frank Ocean
Justin Bieber
2012Frank Evans, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1921)[†]
Frank Evans was a professional baseball player in the Negro leagues.
2012Martin Fleischmann, Czech-English chemist and academic (born 1927)[†]
Martin Fleischmann FRS was a British chemist who worked in electrochemistry. The premature announcement of his cold fusion research with Stanley Pons, regarding excess heat in heavy water, caused a media sensation and elicited skepticism and criticism from many in the scientific community.
2012Paul McCracken, American economist and academic (born 1915)[†]
Paul Winston McCracken was an American economist born in Richland, Iowa.
2012John Pritchard, American basketball player (born 1927)[†]
John David Pritchard was an American professional basketball player. Pritchard was selected in the seventh round of the 1949 BAA Draft by the St. Louis Bombers after a collegiate career at Drake. He played for the Waterloo Hawks for seven total games in 1949. He then spent time playing for the Washington Generals, the traveling exhibition team who always play, and lose to, the Harlem Globetrotters.
2012George Shanard, American politician and agribusinessman (born 1926)[†]
George Harris Shanard was an American politician and agribusinessman who served as a member of the South Dakota Senate from 1975 to 1992 and served as majority leader for the Republican Party from 1989 to 1992. He was inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame in 1999.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]